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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"rural healthcare"”.
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Considering community engagement for remote and rural healthcare design in Scotland: exploring the journey from rhetoric to reality
… health care services are delivered in remote and rural Scottish communities is in a state of reconfiguration. At the same time the NHS faces pressure to plan these new services in partnership with communities themselves. Evidence, however, suggests that this is not necessarily being done …
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Transition to Practice of New Graduate Nurses in the First Year of Employment at a Rural Healthcare System
… of NRP effectiveness is limited, particularly in rural hospitals. Purpose: Determine practice readiness for NGNs attending a rural nurse residency program. Theoretical Framework: Duchscher's Stages of Transition Theory provides the theoretical foundation for the study. The theory emphasizes the …
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The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s
… surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and models, in 1930, the colony’s new medical director formulated the first …
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Reciprocity in Relationships Among Rural Nurses
… to nurse peer relationships; how it influences rural healthcare environments that are affiliated with Magnet hospitals; and how reciprocity influences quality inter-professional care with rural underserved populations.</p>
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A Comparison of Stages of Adoption of Exercise and Decisional Balance for Exercise in Nurses and Non-Nurses
… A convenience sample of 93 employees of a rural healthcare facility, The Decisional Balance for Exercise and Stages of Adoption of Exercise tools (Marcus, 1992) were utilized. Demographic data was also collected. Findings: This study found that there was no significant difference in the …
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Identifying and Prioritizing Essential Healthcare Services for A Private Start-Up Healthcare Hub in Laxmipasha, Bangladesh
… study identifies and prioritizes essential healthcare services for developing a private start-up healthcare hub in Laxmipasha, Bangladesh, a rural community with significant gaps in healthcare access. Using secondary data from national and international sources, the research analyzed disease …
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Portable low-cost magnetic resonance imaging
… emergency rooms, sports facilities, or rural healthcare sites. Methods: A truly portable (<100kg) proof-of-concept MRI scanner has been constructed and validated, which replaces conventional gradient encoding with a rotating lightweight, cryogen-free, low-field magnet. When rotated about …
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Challenges to accessibility of emergency medical services among rural residents in the Otse cluster, Mahalapye district, Botswana.
… yet access to these services remains limited in rural settings. In Botswana's Otse Cluster, Mahalapye District, rising mortality rates and delayed emergency care highlight potential challenges in EMS accessibility. This study aimed to explore the challenges affecting accessibility to EMS among …
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Challenges to accessibility of emergency medical services among rural residents in the Otse cluster, Mahalapye district, Botswana.
… yet access to these services remains limited in rural settings. In Botswana's Otse Cluster, Mahalapye District, rising mortality rates and delayed emergency care highlight potential challenges in EMS accessibility. This study aimed to explore the challenges affecting accessibility to EMS among …
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DNP project : increasing patient portal engagement to promote disease self-management in a rural health clinic
… a prevalent chronic condition, particularly in rural communities where limited resources, health disparities, and barriers to care contribute to poor disease control. Electronic patient portals have demonstrated potential to improve patient engagement, self-management, and health outcomes; …
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Rural Women's Perspectives on Cancer Care in Southern Saskatchewan
… follow up and palliative care. Those living in rural areas in Canada experience additional burdens in meeting supportive care needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women who had been diagnosed with cancer living in a rural area, related to met and unmet supportive …
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Evaluating a questionnaire assessing healthcare provider perceptions of rural dementia care
… which is further compounded for those living in rural and remote areas. How healthcare providers in rural settings meet the needs of those living with dementia in the community is not well documented. Understanding the challenges of rural healthcare providers is essential for improving services …
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Rural Physicians' Perceptions, Beliefs, and Practice Patterns: Catalysts or Barriers to the Diffusion of Complementary Medicine
… in urban locales, neglecting physicians in the rural practice setting. This information is essential for the development of strategies to improve the quality of healthcare for patients in rural areas. <strong>Objective</strong>: This current investigation examines the role of rural physicians’ …
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Rural Community Colleges and the Nursing Shortage in Severely Distressed Counties
… institutions selected in the Ford Foundation's Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) (1995-2000). Data were collected from the Fall 1998 National Study of Post Secondary Faculty to obtain characteristics of faculty and from the 2003 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to …
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Approach to congenital disorders: referral pathways for genetic services in the Eastern Cape
… of genetic services for congenital disorders in rural Eastern Cape through a descriptive phenomenology approach. Methods: Qualitative research, drawing on principles of phenomenology was used as the study design. The sample for this study included healthcare professionals who were involved in the …
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Cultivating care: Exploring gender differences in mental health, substance use, and healthcare among agricultural producers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Optimizing Equity in Healthcare Access: An Integer Programming Approach to Emergency Department Closures and Travel Burden Disparities in Ontario
… closures in Ontario disproportionately affect rural communities. Patients in rural areas already face inequitable access to care, with many lacking a primary care provider. In many communities, the ED serves as both emergency and primary care. When an ED closes, local patients must still seek …
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Providing Care for Many in the Context of Few Resources: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout and Moral Distress Experienced by Healthcare Providers in Rural Uganda
… mental health consequences experienced by healthcare providers in rural Uganda. In Study 1, participants (n=208; 159 students and 49 experienced health workers) completed self-report, psychosocial measures at baseline and 134 of the students completed the measures again 13-months later. …